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Director Steve McQueen returned to the limelight at the Toronto film festival Sunday with the kick-ass feminist heist movie “Widows,” at a time when calls Tokyo Ghoul are multiplying for heftier roles for women.

It’s been five years since the British director Capernaum released his last movie “12 Years A Slave,” which won an Academy Award for best picture, and other accolades.

His newest film, starring Viola Davis — the first black woman to be nominated for three Academy Awards, winning one for “Fences” last year — was adapted from Roma Lynda La Plante’s 1983-85 British television series, which McQueen says “just spoke to me as a 13-year-old black boy in London.”